Geochemical evaluation of low salinity hot water injection to enhance heavy oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs

Although low salinity water injection(LSWI) has recovered residual oil after the conventional waterflood, highly viscous oil has remained in heavy oil reservoirs. Hot water injection is an economic and practical method to improve oil mobility for viscous oil reservoirs. It potentially controls temperature-dependent geochemical reactions underlying the LSWI mechanism and oil viscosity. Therefore, this study has modeled and evaluated a hybrid process of low salinity hot water injection(hot LSWI) to quantify synergistic effects in heavy oil reservoirs. In comparison to seawater injection(SWI) and LSWI, hot LSWI results in more cation ion-exchange(Ca^(2+) and Mg^(2+)) and more wettability modification. Hot LSWI also reduces oil viscosity. In core-scaled systems, it increases oil recovery by 21% and 6% over SWI and LSWI. In a pilotscaled reservoir, it produces additional oil by 6% and 3% over SWI and LSWI. Probabilistic forecasting with uncertainty assessment further evaluates the feasibility of hot LSWI to consider uncertainty in the pilot-scaled reservoir and observes enhanced heavy oil production. This study confirms the viability of hot LSWI due to synergistic effects including enhanced wettability modification and oil viscosity reduction effects.

高压水热反应改性球化结构型煤半焦脱硫工艺研究

考察了在高压釜中,改性剂、压力对球化结构型煤半焦表面性能及其脱硫性能的影响,重点进行了H2O2两次分步改性半焦制备SO2脱硫剂新工艺的研究。研究表明,在1.25~5.60 MPa压力范围内：5%H2O2一次改性半焦,随压力增大,半焦表面积显著增大,脱硫性能显著提高,且随压力增强呈抛物线变化;5%H2O2两次氧化改性半焦,半焦表面极性基团酚羟基和醌型羰基的含量明显增大,改性半焦比表面积达到234.01 m2/g-1,比原样提高了15.6倍。以SO2转化率大于70%为标准,烟道气SO2浓度为1.5%左右时,穿透时间为15 h,硫容达到7.69%,比原样提高15倍。